• Recommended ebooks • Recommended articles • Recommended dance book/arctile websites • Online video collection •
1. ebooks
The Dance; Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D.
Read this book online
Image review from the book:
Dancing to the clapping of bands. Egyptian,
from the tomb of Ur-ari-en-Ptah,
6th Dynasty,
about 3300 B.C.
(British Museum.)
Greek figures
in a solemn dance.
From a vase at Berlin.
Cyprian limestone group
of Phoenician dancers,
about 6½ in. high.
There is a somewhat similar group,
also from Cyprus,
in the British Museum.
The dress,
a hooded cowl,
appears to be of great antiquity.
Patagonian dancers to
fife and tabor.
The Art of Stage Dancing – The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession
Gilda Gray and Ned Wayburn pupils in
“It’s Getting Darker on Broadway,”
follies of 1922
Lace Ballet,
ollies of 1922
Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing (Characters and Demonstrative Figures)
The Presence of the Body.
To know to and from what Positions,
Steps move.
Forwards turning
A regular Figure.
The Russian Ballet by A. E. Johnson
Scene from the ballet Thamar
(Tamara)
by Mily Balakirev
Walker Art Library
The Art of Music
– A Comprehensive Library of Informationfor Music Lovers and Musicians
Greek and Roman Dances
as Depicted on Ancient Vases
Odalisque in ‘Scheherazade’,
(Russian Ballet)
Leon Bakst
Date: 1910
A Plastic Pantomime (Dalcroze Eurhythmics)
The Dance: Its Place in Art and Life by Margaret West Kinney and Troy Kinney
Seventeenth Century Court Dances
The Saraband ;
The Allemand;
The other groups are from the Minuet;
represent the Mirror figure
in the Minuet de la Reine
Typical “Flamenco” Poses.
(From work of Señorita Elisa Cansino.)
The Garrotin;
The Tango;
The Garrotin.
A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
Above:
a landscape set,
designed by F. Fontanesi,
Italy,
eighteen century;
Below:
a set for the Opera
“Robert le Diable”,
at Paris Opera.
Puppet-show,
Fig 1. Behind the scene,
Fig 2. Punch throw away the child,
Fig 3. Punch, Judy and the child,
Fig 4. Punch quiets Judy.
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2. Recommended Dance Book Website
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3. Recommended articles
Download: Bursting bubbles between sand and sea teaching dance on the edge of the Mediterranean.pdf
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Download: Empowering the self through dance in 2012 Egypt.pdf
Download: Pushing Boundaries Reflections on Teaching and Learning Contemporary Dance in Amman. pdf
‘Authentic’ Dance and Racialized Ethnic Identities in Multicultural America: Chinese in Minnesota and Peruvian in New JerseySociology of Race and Ethnicity (2016) by Hui Wilcox, St. Catherine University
Movement in spaces of liminality: Chinese Dance and Immigrant Identities Ethnic And Racial Studies (2011) by Hui Wilcox, St. Catherine University
Embodied Ways of Knowing, Pedagogies, and Social Justice: Beyond Inclusive Science National Women’s Studies Association Journal (2009) by Hui Wilcox, St. Catherine University
To Read More:
https://www.sciencedirect.com
https://www.quantamagazine.org
http://contemporarydance-db.blogspot.com
http://www.dance-archive.net/en/
https://contactquarterly.com/index.php
http://www.mouvement.net
4. Online video collection
To Watch Performances: here
Online Training Resources: here